Ken Krause

Ken Krause has been coaching girls fastpitch softball for nearly 15 years, and has been contributing regular columns on the game to Softball Magazine since 2003. In addition to working as a head coach in travel softball he is also a highly-sought after private instructor, specializing in hitting, pitching and catching. Ken is head softball pitching instructor at North Shore Baseball Academy in Libertyville, Illinois and Grand Slam USA in Spring Grove, Illinois.

His softball-related duties don't end there, however. In addition to his Softball Magazine columns, Ken writes a popular blog on softball called Life in the Fastpitch Lane (http://fastpitchlane.softballsuccess.com) and is the administer of the Discuss Fastpitch Forum (www.discussfastpitch.com).

When he's not at a practice, lesson or tournament somewhere, Ken plays guitar and keyboards as well as sings in a band called The Bosko Brothers (www.theboskobrothers.com). He and his wife Pattie have four children -- Stefanie, Adam, Eric and Kimmie. In his day job Ken is creative director at Tech Image, one of the leading technology-focused PR agencies in the U.S.